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Andrzejewski, Jerzy b. August 19, 1909 d. April 20, 1983Author. He was born and died in Warsaw (Poland). He is best known for his works "Ashes and Diamonds", "And Darkness Covered the Earth (The Inquisitors)", "The Gates of Paradise", "He Cometh Leaping Upon The Mountains", "Inescapable Ways", "Mode of the Heart', "No Man", "Night" and "All But Gone". (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Baird, Tadeusz b. July 26, 1928 d. September 2, 1981Composer. Often cited with Krzystof Penderecki and Henryk Gorecki as a leader of Poland's post-World War II musical avant-garde. Born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, he began music studies during the Nazi occupation and afterwards at the State College of Music in Warsaw (1947 to 1951). His early compositions, including the First and Second Symphonies (1950, 1952), a Piano Concerto (1949), and the Concerto for Orchestra (1953), adhered to "socialist realism" dictates under Stalinism, but after...[Read More] (Bio by: Bobb Edwards)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Boguslawski, Wojciech b. April 9, 1757 d. July 23, 1829Actor, Director, Producer, Playwright. "The Father of Polish Theatre", he devoted his 50-year career to disseminating nationalist ideals and broadening his homeland's cultural horizons through drama. The son of nobility, Boguslawski was born at the family estate in Glinno, near Poznan, Poland. As a teen he was an avid participant in amateur theatre, but in 1775 he was sent to Warsaw for officer training in the Polish Army. In Eastern Europe it was common for authors to write short comedies for...[Read More] (Bio by: Bobb Edwards)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Borowski, Tadeusz b. November 12, 1922 d. July 1, 1951Author. His short story collection "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" (1959), based on his World War II experiences in Nazi death camps, is considered a masterpiece of Holocaust Literature. Written in a pitiless documentary style, these first-person accounts compel readers to imagine what they would do to survive in similar circumstances. They were gathered from two books published during Borowski's lifetime: "Farewell to Maria" (1948) and "World of Stone" (1948). Born in the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bobb Edwards)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Ciechowski, Grzegorz b. August 29, 1957 d. December 22, 2001Rock Musician. He was a frontman of Poland's rock band called "Republika," which was active from 1981 to 2001. He wrote this band's biggest hits such as "White Flag," "Telephones" and many others. He was also a music producer and film music composer. (Bio by: Kasia)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Cwiklinska, Mieczyslawa b. January 1, 1879 d. July 28, 1972Polish stage and screen actress and singer (soprano), outstanding comic actress renowned for her roles in both operettas and the classics. Cwiklinska, who came from a Polish theatrical family, made her debut in 1900 at the Teatr Ludowy (The People's Theatre) in Warsaw in Michal Balucki's play Grube Ryby. She toured Russia in 1906 and in 1910 went to Paris to study voice. In 1918, after appearing in various European cities, such as Dresden and Berlin, she returned to Warsaw and worked with...[Read More] (Bio by: Alexey Gusev)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Dygat, Kalina b. February 5, 1931 d. August 7, 1991Actress. Born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1931, her parents brought her up together with two other children. In 1953 she debuted on stage and year later married famous Polish writer Stanislaw Dygat ( Bodenskie Lake, Disneyland). Her long list of theatre work includes plays by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz and Bertolt Brecht among others. Jedrusik first appeared on screen in 1957 with the movie "Ewa Wants to Sleep" (1958). She is mostly known for playing Joanna in comedy "Medicine on Lov " (1966) and Lucy...[Read More] (Bio by: Kasia)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Eggerth, Marta b. April 17, 1912 d. December 26, 2013Opera Singer. A coloratura soprano in later years called "The Callas of Operetta", she is noted for her performances in numerous motion pictures and on the stages of Europe and the United States. Born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a well-off family, she was raised in Budapest and evidenced her talent from a young age. Marta made her professional debut at 11 in the operetta "Mannequins" and was soon touring western Europe and Scandinavia, singing the works of composers Gioacchino Rossini...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Elsner, Jozef b. June 1, 1769 d. April 18, 1854Composer, Conductor, Educator, Author. An important precursor of Polish Nationalism in music, he pioneered in using folk elements in his work. Some of his operas have themes taken from Polish history and legend. Among his many students the greatest was Frederic Chopin. Joseph Anton Franz Elsner was born in Grottkau (now Grodków), Silesia, a region of Poland then under Prussian rule. His ancestry was German, he received a...[Read More] (Bio by: Bobb Edwards)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Gomulka, Wladyslaw b. February 6, 1905 d. September 1, 1982Polish Communist Leader. He helped establish the Polish Workers' Party and was secretary of its Central Committee from 1943 to 1949. After World War II, he served from 1945 to 1949 as Deputy Premier of Poland. A Polish nationalist, Gomulka was purged in 1949 for his alleged sympathy with the Yugoslav Communist leader Josip Broz Tito, and was arrested in 1951. If it had not been for the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, he would have been executed. He was freed in 1954 and was...[Read More]Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Herbert, Zbigniew b. October 29, 1924 d. July 28, 1998Zbigniew Herbert was an influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist. He was a member of the Polish resistance movement during World War II. He was one of the most famous and translated Polish writers.His family came to Galicia from the United Kingdom. His grandfather was an English teacher and his father fought for Polish liberation in the Polish Legions.In 1938 Herbert started studies at the Casimir The Great Gymnasium in Lvow. During World War II he joined the Armia Krajowa (Home Army)...[Read More] (Bio by: Kasia)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Kaczmarski, Jacek b. March 22, 1957 d. April 10, 2004Singer, Songwriter. In the late 1970s he was hailed as a voice of Poland's Solidarity movement with such fiery protest songs as "Walls" and "Wolf Hunt", which criticized the communist regime and appealed to his people's sense of nationalism in fighting oppression. Faced with imprisonment after martial law was declared in Poland in 1981, Kaczmarski escaped to the west and worked as a broadcast journalist for Radio Free Europe. He returned to a hero's welcome in 1990, after the communist...[Read More] (Bio by: Bobb Edwards)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Kamienski, Maciej b. October 13, 1734 d. January 25, 1821Composer. He won fame as the composer of the first Polish opera, "Misery Made Happy" (1778), a cornerstone of cultural nationalism in his adopted country. It paved the way for a Polish brand of music theatre that thrived for nearly a century. Kamienski was born into a Slovak family in Sopron, Hungary. As a youth he sang in the court chapel of Sopron's Count Henckel von Donnersmarck, and in 1760 he accompanied his widow's entourage to Vienna. There he heard a six year-old Mozart perform at Schö...[Read More] (Bio by: Bobb Edwards)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Kapuscinski, Ryszard b. March 4, 1932 d. January 23, 2007Author, Journalist. Born in Pińsk, Kapuscinski was considered Poland's leading journalist of his time. His experiences covering international conflicts were reflected in such books as "The Emperor", about the decline of Haile Selassie's regime in Ethiopia, "Shah of Shahs", "Imperium", and "Travels with Herodotus". Kapuscinski was frequently mentioned as a favorite to win the Nobel Prize in literature, but it was never awarded to him. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw b. December 11, 1876 d. February 8, 1909An important representative of "Young Poland", an early 20th Century movement that combined Polish nationalist impulses with modern European techniques. His style is romantic and melancholy in character, and has a strong individual stamp. Among his notable works are the Symphony in E minor ("Revival", 1902), a Violin Concerto (1902), the "Lithuanian Rhapsody" for orchestra (1906), and symphonic poems "Eternal Songs" (1906), "The Sorrowful Tale" (1908), and "Episode at a Masquerade" (1908)...[Read More] (Bio by: Bobb Edwards)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Kawalerowicz, Jerzy b. January 19, 1922 d. December 27, 2007Filmmaker. A leading Polish motion picture director of post-World War II era. After working as an assistant director, Kawalerowicz made his 1951 screen debut with "The Village Mill". He then became a founder of the Polish Film School. He was probablay best remembered by his 1966 film "Pharaoh," which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. His credits also include "Shadow" (Cień, 1956), "Night Train" (Pocišg, 1959) and "Mother Joan of the Angels" (Matka Joanna od aniolów...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Kiepura, Jan b. May 16, 1902 d. August 15, 1966Actor, Singer. He was born in Sonowiec, Poland. He began his career as opera singer in 1925, getting a big success. In the final yeras of the 1920s and in the early 1930s, he toured for Europe, South America and United States. He made his film debut already in 1926 with the Polish production "O czem sie nie mysli", but is best remembered for the movies "Die singende Stadt" (1930), "Das Lied einer Nacht" (1932) and "Ein Lied für Dich" (1933). In 1934, he knew his future wife Martha Eggerth...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland